Awake in America : on Irish American poetry / / Daniel Tobin.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Tobin, Daniel.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 464 p. :; ill.
• Notes: "Portions of many of these essays were given as papers over the years at regional, national, and international meetings of the American Conference for Irish Studies"--Pref.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• "Double life. Double lives
• Dinner at the Cafe Marliave
• "Near hag's head"
• Readings. Modernism, leftism, and the spirit : the poetry of Lola Ridge
• The westwardness of everything : Irishness in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
• Lines of leaving, lines of returning : John Montague's double vision
• Starting from Wexford, ending in the sublime : the poetry of James Liddy
• Two for the road : the new Irish routes of Eamonn Wall and Greg Delanty
• The parish and lost America : the witness of Michael Coady's All souls
• Back through distance : currents of tradition in the poetry of Louise Bogan and Thomas McGrath
• "Crossings." Crossings. The need for routes : genealogy in Irish American poetry
• From Crispus Attucks to Mr. Bones : race in Irish American poetry
• Over there : Irish American poets return
• "A green road in Clare"
• The wake of everything gone
• Soundings and erasures : an Irish American poet digs up his past
• "The line".